Free Text Summarizer

Paste any text — an article, a passage from a report, a chapter you copied from a PDF — and get the key points in seconds. No file upload, no account, no setup. The free text summarizer reads what you paste and returns the main argument shortened to a fraction of the original length.

How to summarize text

1. Paste your text into the input box.
2. Submit and wait a few seconds for the summary to appear.
3. Use the chat below the summary to ask follow-up questions — definitions, clarifications, or a version under a specific word count.

If you have a file rather than text, upload it directly instead of copying the content: PDF, DOCX, TXT, PPTX, EPUB and FB2 files up to 30 MB are all accepted without pasting.

Summarizing articles and long reads

A long article — 2,000 words or more — produces the most noticeable compression. The summary identifies the central claim, the main supporting points and the conclusion, and drops the examples, background and filler that make long pieces long. A ten-minute read becomes a thirty-second one.

This is useful for two things: deciding quickly whether an article is worth reading in full, and pulling the argument out of something you already know you need. After reading the summary, use the chat to ask about specific sections without going back to the full text.

Summarizing reports and professional documents

Reports, briefings and policy documents are often structured so the argument is spread across dozens of pages of supporting material. The summary cuts through the structure and gives you what the document actually concludes. For a multi-section report, paste the executive summary first to get the top-level argument, then paste individual sections as needed.

For Word or PowerPoint files specifically, upload rather than paste — the tool preserves heading structure when reading a file directly, which produces better results than pasting the text content without its layout.

Summarizing academic text

Dense academic writing — jargon-heavy, heavily qualified, with arguments spread across long paragraphs — is where summarization saves the most reading time. Paste a section or a full paper and the summary extracts what the text is claiming. For research papers with a standard structure (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion), the output follows that structure and names the key finding and methodology explicitly.

For anything you plan to cite, read the original. The summary tells you whether a paper is relevant to your work; it does not replace reading the methods section or verifying the data yourself.

How long can the text be?

There is no strict character limit for pasted text, but very long passages — a full book pasted as plain text — may be truncated at a practical length. For content that long, use the file upload instead: EPUB and FB2 ebooks up to 30 MB are accepted, and uploading gives the tool better context than a raw text paste.

For most use cases — articles, sections of reports, academic paper abstracts and introductions, meeting notes — length is not a concern. Paste what you have and the tool handles it.

Languages other than English

The tool reads and summarizes text in more than 80 languages, including Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek and CJK scripts. The summary is produced in the same language as the input. Mixed-language text — an English paper with a French abstract, for example — is handled, with the summary following the dominant language.